Jazz Appreciation Month

Jazz Appreciation Month

4:52 am

Tue April 29, 2014

Tuesday's Jazz Trivia:Art Blakey led the Jazz Messengers from 1953 until his death in 1990. Often referred to as "The University of Art Blakey", his ensemble regularly featured up and coming trumpet players who went on to greater fame and fortune.

New Music Monday

8:22 pm

Sun April 27, 2014

Tune in to KUVO on Monday at 12 noon when Arturo Gómez hosts New Music Monday.

We close out New Music Monday for Jazz Appreciation Month-2014 with the debut of the veteran trumpeter and educator’s newest, Ray Vega Quartet’s “Chapter Two”, an exciting mainstream bop jazz recording. Ray is a veteran of the Mongo Santamaria and Tito Puente groups and is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Vermont.